Book
- The Singing Master's Assistant, in which the final version of Chester was published, is in print today in a scholarly edition by Hans Nathan (University Press of Virginia, 1977, ISBN 0-8139-0839-6).
- The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, contains a version with the later text and was published in Boston in 1878; reprint by DaCapo Press, 1980, with New Introduction by Roger L. Hall.
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